Hungarian wine region
How to pronounce Tokaj
Tokaj is pronounced TOH-kye. The stress falls on TOH.
TOH-kye
What is Tokaj?
A historic wine region in northeastern Hungary, renowned for producing Tokaji Aszú, one of the world's greatest and oldest dessert wines. Made primarily from Furmint grapes affected by botrytis, Tokaji Aszú is a lusciously sweet wine with extraordinary complexity, high acidity, and remarkable aging potential.
Other accepted pronunciations
These are also correct, and Vinolingo scores them as correct:
- toh-KAY — Established English name Tokay.
Tips for saying it
Often heard as toh-KYE.
Hungarian always stresses the first syllable: TOH-kye.
Often heard as TOH-kadj.
In Hungarian, j is always a y sound, never the j of 'jam': TOH-kye.
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